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• Build and maintain relationships with Extend and partner staff
• Lead design of monitoring, evaluation, and research frameworks for
  replication partnerships
• Oversee implementation of monitoring, evaluation, and research
  frameworks for replication partnerships
• Identify tools, resources, and best practices to help improve MEL
  programming
• Support refinement and development of data collection instruments,
  including survey development in TaroWorks or on other platforms as
  appropriate for partnership
• Work to increase effectiveness and quality of partner data
  collection policies and processes
• Design and implement systems for data management
• Data quality review, data cleaning, analysis, and reporting
• Contribute to ongoing MEL-related professional development for
  Village and partner staff
• Create or maintain high quality MEL training materials (Manuals,
  PowerPoint presentations, practice TaroWorks forms, etc)

• Build and maintain relationships with Innovations staff; coordinate
  closely with the Innovations team, ensuring smooth integration of
  iteration testing and impact measurement across MEL and Innovations workflows
• Supervise and support Innovations staff as appropriate for
  iterations testing and impact measurement
• Support lean testing efforts of Innovations Team
• Design and lead iteration testing and/or impact measurement in
  relation to initiatives developed by the Innovations team as appropriate
  for the purposes of making evaluative conclusions regarding the value of
  adopting and/or scaling initiatives
• Manage the implementation of monitoring, evaluation, and research
  frameworks for Innovations projects making it to the Implementation Stage
• Support refinement and development of data collection instruments,
  including survey development in TaroWorks or on other platforms as
  appropriate
• Record ‘methods of exploration’ and ‘results’ for integration into
  Innovations team documentation of larger workflows
• Work to increase effectiveness and quality of data collection
  policies and processes
• Identify tools, resources, and best practices to help improve lean
  learning
• Contribute to ongoing MEL-related professional development for
  Innovations staff
• Create or maintain high quality MEL training materials (Manuals,
  PowerPoint presentations, practice TaroWorks forms, etc.)
• Facilitate staff trainings and provide support for adoption of lean
  learning methods
• Data quality review, data cleaning, analysis, and reporting
• Database management and information management
• Cross-functional collaboration with at all levels of the
  organization

• Support planning and implementation for Core and Partnerships MEL
  programming as needed
• Contribute to ongoing MEL-related professional development for MEL
  staff
• Support Database management and information management for Core and
  Partnerships
• MEL programming as needed
• Additional MEL-related work as assigned by MEL Director

• Provide management oversight and leadership, as requested by, and in
  collaboration with, the East Africa Field Management Team
• Participate in and contribute to mid-management meetings when
  applicable
• Support general operations as needed

• The ideal candidate must hold a 
  degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Economics, Statistics or a
  related field; Preference will be given to candidates with a relevant
  Master’s degree (completed or enrolled)
• Possess the technical knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in
  the role
• Strong quantitative skills and experience with data analysis; good
  command of STATA
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint
• Proficiency with Google Documents, Gmail, and Android applications
• Understand the elements of data quality: consistent, complete,
  accurate, timely, verifiable, valid
• Proven ability to design monitoring and evaluation plans, including developing
  theories of change and logical frameworks
• Ability to develop SMART indicators
• Literacy with the basic methods for data collection: surveys,
  interviews, performance tests, site visits/observation, focus group
  discussions, participatory methods, pre-existing data
• Experience designing and implementing surveys
• Experience conducting data quality reviews and with cleaning data
• Understand principles of Human Centered Design
• Possess Training and Communication Skills
• Demonstrate ability to communicate key concepts to multitude of stakeholders
  across the organization
• Ability to orally communicate issues, problems, and key information
• Ability to write clear, concise memos highlighting issues, problems,
  and key information
• Experience working as part of a diverse team with the ability to
  work via email, phone, Skype, and other virtual communications
• Flexible, self-motivating, able to manage multiple tasks
  efficiently, and a team player
• Must be a very strong critical thinker able to identify potential
  solutions to challenges in new environments
• Experience with Salesforce and/or TaroWorks is a plus

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